“It wasn’t my best game. And the coaches pulled me out,” Smith said via the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “I had some penalties in crucial situations. . . . And I need to play better so I can help the team.”

The Rams drafted Smith to play left tackle and he’s on the right side now. It’s debatable whether he’s even a league-average starter there.

The good news for St. Louis is that they still play in the NFC West. The bad news: No division games until Week Nine.

22 responses to “Jason Smith a symbol for disappointing Rams”

@BigJohn – Eugene is not a bust. But he is close to. Oher is a better player in offensive line that draft. Jason Smith, Andre Smith were all bust. Eugene Monroe is close to be a bust (very inconsistent player).

I thought Smith was WAY to high at 2nd overall. As for the Rams, their offense is just completely devoid of talent. Their defense is awful in the secondary, and they have only 1 linebacker who should be on the field. The DE’s are the only set position on this defense. Sam Bradford needs weapons.

RT is the least of the Ram’s problems. Justin King has to be the worst DB in all of football. He got torched the first 2 weeks than gives up 3 td and 133 yards in the first quarter to a rookie WR playing his FIRST game!

There is always a high risk in drafting an offensive lineman that high. The league is filled with high-caliber offensive linemen that were taken in later rounds in the draft. Ironically enough, Jason Smith has been thoroughly outplayed by Roger Saffold, taken in the second round.

Where’s Mike Mayock and all of the blind sheep who were talking about how dominant he was in college, despite never even lining up in a pro set in his life at Baylor?

Said it during that draft when the Seahawks foolishly took another college overachiever, Aaron Curry, from Wake Forest in that draft.

Leave those overachieving but ordinary athletic guys from those kinds of colleges for the 2nd and third round unless their extraordinary physical specimens that ended up at that college by accident (Randy Moss, Jerry Rice, Steve McNair) because you’re going to get disappointed 10 times out of 10 otherwise.

I never expected the season to start out like this. They got 5 CBs (2 starting) on IR. Draft picks used on other posistions like LT, CB, MLB, QB, DE, etc. were needed. IDK how much longer this Rams team has before Spags gets canned, which is a shame too b/c I think he’s a good coach.

And to the guy that said the Rams were foolish to pass Suh. No, it wasn’t. As great as Suh is, Bradford was the right pick. Yesterday, Stafford/Megatron carried the Lions to victory.